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No fillers, no fanservice, amazing character development and how they play around with whats good and evil is just mind blowing. It starts out as a family friendly cartoon but O H B O Y shit gets real later on. Without a doubt the best anime i've ever seen. I highly recommend watching it!

The show might seem slow at first but this is merely build up for the fantastic execution that comes later. Watch 5 episodes at least before dropping it if you will.
Characters 10/10
The lovable main lead Gon might seem generic but he is the a cliché done well. The other protagonists motivations and backstories (which I won't spoil) are intriguing. Some of the best villains in anime.
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The show might seem slow at first but this is merely build up for the fantastic execution that comes later. Watch 5 episodes at least before dropping it if you will.
Characters 10/10
The lovable main lead Gon might seem generic but he is the a cliché done well. The other protagonists motivations and backstories (which I won't spoil) are intriguing. Some of the best villains in anime. Character arcs and development are also fantastic.
Animation 10/10
Beautiful and consistent. Bright when it wants to be happy, dark when it wants to be sad. Action scenes are great. The budget does not make sense.
Voice Acting 10/10
Great casting with real professionals.
Story 9/10
A little all over the place but it makes sense from a character perspective. Wacky adventures and compacted arcs strong enough to rival JoJo's.

Hunter X Hunter starts off alright. For most of the first arc, it seems like this well-executed but somewhat generic shonen, one of many. Little do you realize that this is just the author lulling you into a false sense of security, before yanking you down a twisting, unpredictable, intellectual rabbit hole full of interesting, realistic characters and intense, incredibly variable
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Hunter X Hunter starts off alright. For most of the first arc, it seems like this well-executed but somewhat generic shonen, one of many. Little do you realize that this is just the author lulling you into a false sense of security, before yanking you down a twisting, unpredictable, intellectual rabbit hole full of interesting, realistic characters and intense, incredibly variable fights.

Regarding interesting characters, HxH has some of the best villains out of any show I've seen. This isn't just because they're powerful, though they are that. It's also because they feel like real people. They have motives, they have friendships, they have likeable quirks, they learn and grow and adapt and become stronger. In fact, calling them a "villain" is really a disservice to the show, they should be called "antagonists". Their position isn't based on some cartoony trope like evil for evil's sake, or power, or most of the typical motives. It's because they have different values, different perspectives, and that causes them to clash with the main characters and society as a whole.

Regarding fights, pretty much every fight in HxH is unique and intense for its own reasons. There are many reasons for this, but one of the big ones is the power system. No spoilers, but pretty much any fight can go any way: power levels are explicitly said to be completely irrelevant. This is because the abilities that the power system allows are incredibly varied, from something as simple as enhanced strength to something as intricate as a bank that gradually charges interest on energy, to something as strange as a vacuum that can suck up any non-living matter.

I could go on, but I wont. Long story short, watch this show, and give it a chance past the first several episodes. You won't be dissapointed.

If I go into all the reasons why Hunter X Hunter is great I'll end up with an essay, so I'll keep things brief.

It may look like it's for kids because of the age of the main character, but don't let that fool you. Especially later it get's into some pretty dark themes such as (but not limited to) mafia violence, torture, genocide, and nuclear war.

The world building is fantastic. All of the
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If I go into all the reasons why Hunter X Hunter is great I'll end up with an essay, so I'll keep things brief.

It may look like it's for kids because of the age of the main character, but don't let that fool you. Especially later it get's into some pretty dark themes such as (but not limited to) mafia violence, torture, genocide, and nuclear war.

The world building is fantastic. All of the characters are likeable and even the minor characters have a fair amount of depth to them. What people most know Hunter for is it's incredibly fleshed out and brilliant power system. This anime is the best for the "battle of wits" kind of fights which make it difficult to guess who will win or how they will do it. Because the power system is so well done, nothing feels like BS or like the writer pulled something out of nowhere.

Each arc is exciting and it can be very difficult to guess how things will turn out in the end. This show will manage to keep you on your toes. The second last arc (Chimera ant arc) is an epic drama which many would consider to be the greatest anime arc of all time.

While this is technically a shonen anime, it subverts many of the shonen tropes. I highly highly recomend this as a must-watch anime for any shonen fan. The only downside is its incredibly easy to watch episode after episode and before you know it your weekend will be gone!

This anime is for you if,
- You like crazy anime fights
- You like the "battle of wits" kind of fights
- You are interested in one of (if not the best) power system in a battle anime
- You like shonen anime (one piece, full metal alchemist, my hero academia, etc)
- You like world-building and are interested in an alternate universe of superpowers and monsters

Hunter x Hunter is a long anime so I can understand if you are intimidated, but it's well worth it! It's not too late to take the plunge!

When you take a glance at the art cover of this series, without knowing any context, you may think that this series is one of those typical, generic, Shounen anime where there is a small group of friends who fight and always stick together till the end. Well, none of that is the case.

This anime went beyond my expectations. I'm not exaggerating. The anime starts off very
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When you take a glance at the art cover of this series, without knowing any context, you may think that this series is one of those typical, generic, Shounen anime where there is a small group of friends who fight and always stick together till the end. Well, none of that is the case.

This anime went beyond my expectations. I'm not exaggerating. The anime starts off very happy-go-lucky with high spirits. Do not be fooled though! Suddenly, strong bonds between characters start to wilt, crucial characters get murdered, and the show slowly starts to get a lot darker and more mature. This series gives you a unique, emotional, adventurous experience, and you will not regret watching this.

The character development is absolutely AMAZING. Gon Freecss starts off like any other generic, Shounen character, but he ends up bringing you to another side of his world. Killua Zoldyck shows off cold and monotone in the beginning, but soon enough, he realizes that he treasures things and people that are crucial towards him. The character development is so phenomenal, that you will literally feel their emotions and get goosebumps all over you.

Okay, but the voice acting definitely needs to get praised. The Japanese voice actors really hit me. It's literally perfect. Once you get into episode 116, that's when you 100% understand how amazing they are. It's not even just that episode, but you will honestly get really surprised once you reach there.

The animation and the soundtrack. It's perfect. Nothing else needs to be explained.

Overall, this anime is an action-packed adventure that won't lead you to a disappointment. This anime is way off of your typical, generic, Shounen series, it's so much more than that. The other 5-star reviews will tell you that, too.

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It’s not a story the Jedi would tell you. It’s a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life… He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force
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Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It’s not a story the Jedi would tell you. It’s a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life… He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful… the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.

I really don't get the love for this series. I watched it through to the end because I was bored and it was simple enough to get into.

However there was a point where I stopped watching it for several months and then eventually picked it back up again.

This show is incredibly inconsistent. It spends time building up characters that are just dropped out of nowhere and pop up randomly with no
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I really don't get the love for this series. I watched it through to the end because I was bored and it was simple enough to get into.

However there was a point where I stopped watching it for several months and then eventually picked it back up again.

This show is incredibly inconsistent. It spends time building up characters that are just dropped out of nowhere and pop up randomly with no explanations. Sometimes death is treated like nothing and then randomly the main character will all of a sudden get super mad that somebody dies, and it makes no sense at all.

There is so much that could have been done, but it wasn't. Things were just thrown around and forgotten. The second to last arc lasts WAY too long that supposedly takes place in like an hour so the pacing is completely off.

Then the payoff, the ending is just kind of meh. It just happens. That's the only way I can explain it without giving it away. I really don't get the love for this series, but it helped pass time at least. If people enjoy it, great, I have a feeling whatever it's based on is better than what we get here.